Echols: The world waits
“Lungs and trees. Forever dancing with one another; forever swapping gasses that work to keep life going on our planet. Who was it that overlayed the X-ray of a lung with the photograph of a tree and thought, ‘The branches should have been a clue. How did we miss it?’” (Candace Echols/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book “Josephine and the Quarantine.”
“One morning, not too far off, we will wake up, we will go outside, and we will discover that while we were sleeping, something that looks an awful lot like mercy has visited our natural world.”
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